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Returns a triangulation of this 3-manifold, if such a construction has been implemented.

If no construction routine has yet been implemented for this 3-manifold (for instance, if this 3-manifold is a Seifert fibred space with sufficiently many exceptional fibres) then this routine will return 0.

The details of which 3-manifolds have construction routines can be found in the notes for the corresponding subclasses of NManifold. The default implemention of this routine returns 0.

Returns

a triangulation of this 3-manifold, or 0 if the appropriate construction routine has not yet been implemented.

The output should provide the user with all the information they could want. The output should be human-readable, should not contain extremely long lines (so users can read the output in a terminal), and should end with a final newline.

The default implementation of this routine merely calls writeTextShort() and adds a newline.